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The use of violence by organized crime. A socio-economic analysis of Camorra clans in Campania, Programma STAR-Linea1-2014

, 2015
The use or even the threat of the use of violence is one of the resources used by organized crime in order to maintain power and competitiveness of its businesses, strengthen its reputation, and impose territorial control.
MASSARI, MONICA
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Defining Reconciliation Studies: Theoretical and Practical Dimensions

Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Reconciliation studies (RS) has become increasingly influential in understanding alternative views to ending conflict and dealing with the aftermath. As a discipline or field, however, it is not well defined. The actual usefulness of reconciliation (as a concept), or of RS (as a discipline), is debated, and due to its growing usage, it is ...
Colleen Alena O’Brien
wiley   +1 more source

PREVENTIVE ACTIVITIES AIMED AT PREVENTING AND COMBATING CRIME WITH THE REFERENCE TO THE STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK OF REPUBLIC OF SERBIA

Pravo, 2018
Criminality is a very complex phenomenon and it represents a national problem in all countries. In the field of crime, the organized crime is particularly highlighted.
Boban Dzunic
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Organized crime and regional development. A review of the Italian case

This paper offers a review of the effects of organized crime on regional economic development, with particular reference to the case of Italy. After reviewing the empirical studies that analyse the relationship between crime and economic development, the
Vittorio, Daniele
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From Custom to Court: The Evolution of Mediation in European Legal Systems

Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article traces how European mediation has repeatedly rebalanced three variables—(1) the source of mediator authority, (2) the degree of institutionalization, and (3) the operative meaning of voluntariness—from antiquity to the present. Using three periods—Proto‐Mediation (c. 500 BCE–c. 1750), Classical Mediation (c.
Viktoriia Hamaiunova
wiley   +1 more source

RĂZBOIUL DIN UCRAINA ŞI SECURITATEA NAŢIONALĂ. MODIFICĂRI ÎN ACTIVITATEA CRIMINALITĂŢII ORGANIZATE [PDF]

Intelligence și Cultura de Securitate
Organized crime has acquired new values in the context of the geopolitical, social and economic transformations that the states are currently facing, expanding their ramifications at the international level.
Cornel RACOVEANU
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States, frauds, and the threat of transnational organized crime

, 2012
Fraud and corruption are very serious threats to some states and are harmful to all; however, this threat is seldom connected to transnational organized crime (TOC).
Levi, Michael
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Do CSR Committees Moderate the Relationship Between Democratic Societies and Firm Innovation? An International Overview

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to provide evidence of the impact of civil liberties and political rights on corporate innovation, through the lens of institutional theory. Moreover, the research also analyses the moderating role of the CSR committee in the relationships between civil liberties and innovation, and political rights and innovation.
Isabel Gallego‐Álvarez, María Consuelo Pucheta‐Martínez   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Organised Crime: Combating an Elusive Transnational Threat

, 2010
Since the end of the Cold War; wide spread political, economic, social and technological changes have enabled organised criminal groups to develop transnational activities.
Senior, Angus John Henry
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Global Organized Crime Index 2021

, 2021
The Global Organized Crime Index is the first tool of its kind designed to assess levels of organized crime and resilience to organized criminal activity. It includes inits rankings all the UN member states – 193 countries. The results, which draw from a
Virtual Centre for Strategic Economic Policy and Geopolitics Research and Analysis (SEPGRA)
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